Halloween Witch and Pumpkin

I thought I would post these pics of trick or treaters who came to my house last night.

Of course it's my grandchildren who arrived for dinner after they had been out collecting their candy. You just gotta love 'em eh?

OSAAT challenge 37 - Anything goes Christmas - Christmas Crackers

Happy Halloween, I hope the day is going well.

Today is another OSAAT challenge and this week it is to make anything that fits with the theme of traditional or modern Christmas.

I got a gorgeous fairy bear image to play with by JLJ Designs and decided it would be fabulous as part of a set of Christmas crackers for my grandaughters - so of course there had to be some pink in it.

There are several sponsors this week with some lovely prizes up for grabs.

Easycraft are giving a £10.00 voucher.   http://www.easycraft.com/      

I am Roses has some flowers to give away. http://www.iamroses.com/

Michelles scrapbooking and more is giving a $10 voucher.   http://www.michellesscrap.com/

So go on over and look at the fabulous inspiration from the OSAAT Design Team.

 

I have to say I bought the crackers but I added the pink ribbon and the image plates.

The fairy bear was coloured in Photoshop Elements and then I added shading by adding colour with Promarkers. I also added glitter to the wings, then cut the image out and set it on a grey Nestabilities Labels 4 plate.

I am going to look for some 'PINK' challenges to enter this in to as we all know it is breast cancer concern month and it is something we all need to be aware of.

Enjoy the rest of your day and the week ahead. I will not be around much again for 4 weeks as I will be working almost 24/7, but come the second week in December I will have finished and be back to visiting as well as creating and making.

Take care. Luv B xxxx

Challenges to have fun with -
Craft Your Passion - Add glitter/sparkles
Papertake Weekly - Sparkly and bright
A Spoonfull of sugar - Diecuts and punches
The ABC Challenge - G is for Glitter
Simon Says Stamp - Punches and diecuts
Stampavie - Christmas
Southern Girls - Glitter 
Alphabet Challenge - Angels or fairies
Fussy and Fancy - Winter Wonderland
Totally papercrafts - Bling it on
Bee Crafty - Christmas

The Stamp Man DT

Well I couldn't believe it when I got an email this week from Jill at The Stamp Man asking me if I would be a member of their DT. What a surprise - and of course I have said yes. I am soooo excited to join in and be part of the exciting team and creations that are made.

I just love the work of the design team, they are such a talented group of ladies and I am in awe of the projects and cards they produce. I shall do my best to keep up with them.

Those of you who know me are aware that my job commitments at the moment take up most of my time and will until December but Jill has said that I should only dip in when I feel I can and not to feel pressured to join in with everything straight away - how kind. But of course I have already looked to see what is coming up. And that is one of the lovely things about this challenge blog, the themes are given some weeks in advance so you can plan to take part, which is a great idea. I hope you will come with me and join in, the challenges are fortnightly, therefore giving you plenty of time to make something.  The current challenge is to make a card for a man, the next theme coming up is Christmas.

Check out the challenge blog http://thestampmanchallenges.blogspot.com/
and the shop http://www.thestampman.co.uk/catalog/  there are a number things that are reduced.

I have also been given a spot as Guest Designer for a Canadian stamp company called Scrolls Work. This won't be until next June, so I have plenty of time to be ready for that. They produce some lovely vintage and steampunk stamps and the P&P is reasonable to England. I have of course ordered some to have a play with. Oh dear more money, but while I'm earning ........... Another exciting project though and something to look forward to.

Woo hoo what an interesting and exciting few days.

It's Friday and the weekend starts here - I must away to my bed as I am going out with a friend tomorrow and won't be around now till either much later tonight or Saturday sometime.

Take care and have fun.

Luv B xxxx

Compendium of Curiosities week 19 - Extreme Masking

Well I actually got to play with this TH technique earlier than I have been doing, in fact last week I made the deadline for entry by 2 hours, call that near the mark or what!!!

As it's almost All Hallows Eve I decided to use spooky Halloween colours - purple, orange and black which meets the deets for Flutterby Wednesday as I have used butterflies as well. The extreme masking technique is explained on P.61 of TH's book and this meets the requirements for the challenge at Studio L3. If you would like to see more inspiration from the man himself then go take a look at his blog HERE.

The small butterfly masks are Papermania vinyls and the larger one is a Tattered Angels mask and I used repositionable spray on it to keep it in one place.

Stamps are a variety by TH and the DI's used are dusty concord, spiced marmalade and black soot. I made my own spray using aged mahogany and faded jeans. The whole piece has been edged with black soot DI and black diamonds stickles.

I have added bats and black butterflies to give this more of a traditional Halloween feel to it. The butterflies are all MS punches and sprayed with spray and sparkle. The bats are a Quickcutz die.

I made another of the metal roses, but I have to admit it looks more like a pine cone, which actually fits this better. I used copper ten second studio metal sheet, die cut the flowers using a Marianne Creatables die, stuck the metal flowers to black card then put it together using a clear, soft glue which takes a while to dry, but allows you to position each layer as you want it.

I shall use the pine cone effect again when doing autumnal designs.

Lastly I added brads and ribbon to make this into a piece which I will hang on the front door on Saturday, ready for any Trick or Treaters.

 

Challenges to have fun with - I can't believe how many Halloween challenges are still about, so this will fit quite a few of them.

Raise the Bar - Orange, black and purple.

Stampin for the weekend - Halloween/Fall

Crazy 4 Challenges - Halloween

Creative Inspirations - Halloween/Fall

Drunken Stampers - Halloween

Aly's Sunday Challenge - Distressed

Cupcake Inspirations - Halloween theme

Kaboodle Doodles - Bats

Ooh La La Creations - Scary stuff

Paper playtime - Halloween

Pear Tree Designs - Halloween

Simon Says Stamp and Show - Spookay

A crafty little place - Make it spooky

Crafty Creations - Halloween/Autumn

Little Red Wagon - Halloween

Simon Says Stamp - Punch 'Em

The Wild Flower Patch - Halloween

Penny's Challenges - Black, Purple, Orange

AIF - Halloween

Dutch Dare - Halloween

Paperplay - A Haunting We Will Go

Pixie Dust Studio - Happy Halloween

S2G - Trick or Treat

Shelly's Images - Tic Tac Toe - mine is the right hand column of brads, distressing, flower

Have a great Halloween.

Luv B xxxx

MAWTT challenge 70 - Card for a child

It's Thursday and another fabulous MAWTT challenge and this week the talented Shell has chosen the theme which is to make a card for a child. The prize this week is some digis from La La Land and they very kindly sent us some images to play with this week. Do pop over to the main challenge blog and look at the wonderful creations from the rest of the team.

I chose this cute image and made a Christmas card.

I made the base of the card with the image using Photoshop Elements and the papers, trees and sentiment  are from The Shabby Princess. The only extras are some shading using promarkers over the top of the image already coloured in digitally, Flower Soft, glitter, DI forest green and crystal stickles.

I love the technique of colouring in my image on the computer then adding promarker shading over the top. It's fabulous experimenting with colours over colour.

Challenges to have fun with -

Stamp Something - Use a digi

Totally Gorjuss - Sparkle
The Crafty Pad - Christmas
Craft your Passion - Add glitter/sparkle
Crafty Cardmakers - Digital Plus (I have used 2 digi papers, digi image, digi elements (trees) and digi sentiment)
Papertake weekly - Sparkly and bright
Creative Belli - Flower Soft


I hope the week has gone well, especially if it is half term week for you.

Take care. Luv B xxxxx

I made Top 3 this week

I am so pleased my OSATT Celebration Christmas card made Top 3 at Scrap Creations this week. This is the card with the amazing sketch I followed from Posh Designs and the recycled cardboard backing.

Thankyou Kristen and special thoughts and prayers for you, for Ethan and for his family.

B xxxx

Compendium of Curiosities week 18 - Pink

I didn't think I would get anything done this weekend as I have been away with the family to Ramsgate, but I have worked on this since being home tonight. It's not a wonderful photo as I have had to take it under a lamp, but maybe I will get a better one up tomorrow so you can see the true colours.

I have a wedding to go to next year in Cyprus. Richard, who is the eldest son of my good friends Margaret and Bill, is getting married to Sal and I have promised them a guest book for the wedding day. It will be a small and quiet wedding with a big reception for the rest of the family and friends when they get home.

Sal wants hot pink for her book, so that's where I have started. This will be used to embellish one of the pages. 

I know it's very different and not the usual vintage style I like, but I have used the dabber resist technique from the Compendium of Curiosities. The heart is a cuttlebug die, wings from a TH die and the butterfly is a MS punch. The flower I made from a punch too and inked it using worn lipstick which I also used on the background with spun sugar and pumice stone. The colours of the book will be pink, white and silver.

Please pop over to Studio L3 for the challenge and to see what amazing entries there are. Thankyou Linda for keeping this going, I just love looking every Monday to see what is coming next.

I hope you all have a good week.

Take care. Luv B xxxx

OSAAT challenge - Celebration

Happy Sunday

The challenge at OSAAT this week is celebration and I have chosen to make a card to celebrate Christmas. I really do need to get more of my Christmas cards made, I have been adding some slowly to the collection but I usually send around 160 cards altogether so I have a long way to go if I am going to make them all.

The winner this week gets 5 digis from the Stitchy Bear and I did it Creations Boutique.

I found this sketch on a challenge blog I hadn't seen before - Posh Designs Scrapbook Store and I have to say it really intrigued me. 

I think it is very unusual and thought it would be a real challenge with the lovely snowman digi I have used. Well those of you who know me, know that I am always up for a challenge.

So here is the result.

The digi is called Sammie Snowman and created by Lexi at Lexi's Creations and can be found at Stitchy's store here. I printed it out twice, cut one as a mask and then stamped a background to it, then used nesties labels 2. The papers are from The Shabby Princess and I backed everything on a piece of recycled cardboard from a parcel I had received. The ticket is from Miss Cutiepie.

Enjoy the rest of the day and the week ahead.

Luv B  xxxx

Other challenges to have fun with -
Scrap Creations - Christmas
Tuesday Throwdown - Anything Goes
The Wildflower Patch - Twine
Charisma Cards - Vintage
Meljens Designs - Anything Goes
Alphabet Challenge - Z is for zig-zags   Does ric-rac count do you think????
Stamp Something - Use a digi
2 Sisters - Anything Goes
Mark's Finest papers - Use DieCuts
Alys Sunday Challenge - Distressed
Sentimental Sundays - Distressing and sentiment (Ticket)
The Crafty Pad - Christmas  with a Stitchy Digi

MAWTT challenge 69 - Use Promarkers - Christmas Tag

As you can see the theme this week is to use Promarkers and is hosted by the lovely Lisa. I have collected a few Promarkers this year, and certainly do not have them all, but I love to experiment with overlaying different colours, which is what I have done on my tag this week, especially the girl's red suit.

We are being sponsored by Letraset, who make Promarkers. They are giving away a set of SPRING coloured pens as the prize this week which has the colours Powder Blue, Pink Carnation, Buttercup, Leaf Green and Orchid. There are also 2 fineliners in 0.1 and 0.3.

If you enter, to ensure you are in with a chance of winning, you must put a link to Letraset on your blog, saying that they are sponsoring the MAWTT challenge this week.

http://www.letraset.com/craft/default.asp

This is a tag I made using a vintage image from The Graphics Fairy and using my Promarkers to colour it in.

I used 4 colours and the blender pen on the red suit - Cardinal Red, Crimson, Caramel and Magenta. Now who would have thought that they would mix, but by adding the brown, I think I've got more of a vintage red colour, which I really like.

I added some flower soft to the fluffy bits around the collar and sleeves of the girl. The edges were inked with DIs on all 3 papers and the tag itself.

The Poinsettia is made from glitter card using a creative flowers die from CREAlies.

I added a hole reinforcer, and some ribbon and eh voila.

I shall keep this to put on someones gift at Christmas.

It would be lovely if you took part in this challenge, I love going and looking to see how other people interpret the challenges.

Enjoy your Thursday and the weekend.

Luv B xxxx



Challenges to have fun with.

Fairy Fun Fridays - Tickets or tags

Allsorts - Let's play Bingo - love this one, choose one of the lines from their bingo card. I chose the bottom line ribbon, tag and punch, but I have used a die rather than a punch so I hope this counts.

The Crafty Pad - Distressed or torn edges

Crafty Cardmakers - Use a freebie

Stampin' Royalty - Ribbons

Vintage Halloween 2

Another little card using a free downloadable image, backed onto silver glittery card and free downloadable bat paper. The other bits are from my stash. The spider and web are from a bag of halloween confetti.

Challenges to have fun with -

Everybody Art - Halloween

Crafts and Me - Halloween

Creative Cottage - Halloween

Stampin' Royalty - Halloween

Easy Craft projects - Halloween

2 Sisters Challenge Blog - Halloween

Creative Inspirations - Halloween

One Stop Craft - Halloween

Cupcake Inspirations - Halloween

Doodle Dragon Studio - Halloween

Crafty Cardmakers - Use a freebie

Paper Playtime - Pumpkins or webs

The Crazy Challenge - Halloween